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Originally Posted by REAL 1
Whats this "kit" vs. "replica" stuff? A replica can be kit and a kit can be replica. You guys are trying to make a distinction where none exists. ERAs are kits, FFR are kits. They are also replicas if you at least use some "Cobra ingredients". A gauge set, gauge pattern. Shifter knob, spinner, Trigo, correct overflow tank, peddles etc...Doesn't have to be all of it just at least something. Make some effort to have some ingredient from the original receipe. Put a Lexus chassis and drive train under an ERA shell and thats where I have an issue calling it a replica as that term is now commonly understood.
Very simple the term replica is now commonly understood to mean a car which looks and copies a Cobra but is not a Cobra. The farther away you get from what a Cobra is inside and out the farther away you are from having a replica of a Cobra. Period.
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My idea of a kit car is to make a Fiero a Ferrari, make a VW a Porsche 356, etc. Most of these "kits" are designed to use whatever parts the builder has in his arsenal, or whatever his imagination leads him to use.
I have ever-so-slowly been turning myself away from the Cobra. It doesn't matter what word you use to "punctuate" your statement you just made, unless it's a CSX car from the 60's, you have a replica....and to 99% of the general population out there, it's a "kit-car". Exclamation point.
I will agree that some of your higher quality manufacturers can get as close as possible to the look/feel/functionality of an original, but it's still a replica.
I'm glad I just build engines.
